Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 51:43
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass thereby.
43. a desert ] Cp. Jer 50:12; Jer 50:40.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
A wilderness – Or, a desert of sand.
A land wherein – Rather, a land – no man shall dwell in them (i. e., its cities), and no human being shall pass through them.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
See Jer 2:6; 9:12; the words are all of them descriptive of an utter desolation, that should not only be the fate of Babylon the head city, but of all the inferior cities, that were as daughters to that mother city.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
43. Her citiesthe cities, herdependencies. So, “Jerusalem and the cities thereof” (Jer34:1). Or, the “cities” are the inner and outer cities,the two parts into which Babylon was divided by the Euphrates[GROTIUS].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness,…. Which some understand of Babylon itself, divided into two parts by the river Euphrates running in the midst of it, called by Berosus f the inward and outward cities; though rather these design the rest of the cities in Chaldea, of which Babylon was the metropolis, the mother city, and the other her daughters, which should share the same fate with herself; be demolished, and the ground on which they stood become a dry, barren, uncultivated, and desert land:
a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass thereby; having neither inhabitant nor traveller; see
Jer 50:12.
f Apud Joseph. contr. Apion, l. 1. c. 19.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He repeats what he had previously said, but we have before reminded you why he speaks so largely on a subject in itself not obscure. For he might have comprehended in a few words all that he had said in the last chapter and also in this; but it was difficult to convince men of what he taught — it was therefore necessary to dwell at large on the subject.
He says now that the cities of Babylon, that is, of that monarchy, would become a desolation. He seems to have hitherto directed his threatenings against the city itself; but now he declares that God’s vengeance would extend to all the cities under the power of the Chaldean nation; and he speaks at large of their desolation, for he says that it would be a land of desert, a land of drought, or of filthiness, so that no one would dwell in it. And though he uses the singular number and repeats it, yet he refers to cities, Pass through it shall no man, dwell in it shall no man (102) He indeed speaks of the whole land, but so that he properly refers to the cities, as though he had said, that so great would be the destruction, that however far and wide the monarchy of Babylon extended, all its cities would be cut off. It afterwards follows, —
(102) The Sept. and the Syr. remove the incongruity that is in this verse; they supply כ before the “land” that occurs first, and omit the second “land.” Then the verse would read thus, —
43. Become have her cities a desolation, Like a land of drought and a wilderness; Dwell in them shall no man, And pass through them shall no son of man.
The second “land” is omitted in two MSS.; and one has “in her,” instead of “in them.” — Ed.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(43) Her cities are a desolation . . .The word for wilderness is Arabah, commonly used of the sandy desert south of the Dead Sea. The prophet seems to dwell with a stern delight on the seeming paradox that the sea with which Babylon is to be oversowed, the floods of invaders and destroyers, shall leave her cities and her plains drier and more sandy than before.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Jer 51:43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass thereby.
Ver. 43. Her cities are a desolation. ] See Jer 2:6 ; Jer 9:12 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
no man dwelleth. Still future.
man. Hebrew. ‘adam. App-14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
cities: Jer 51:29, Jer 51:37, Jer 50:39, Jer 50:40
a land: Jer 2:6, Isa 13:20, Eze 29:10, Eze 29:11
Reciprocal: Isa 14:23 – make Jer 50:12 – a wilderness Jer 51:26 – shall not Jer 51:47 – her whole Hos 2:3 – a dry
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 51:43. Doubtless many of the cities besides the capital were destroyed and the inhabitants slain in the general wars the Babylonians had to suffer. However, the permanent state of desolation as to inhabitants applied to Babylon only.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
All the cities of the land would become uninhabited, and the land would become a waterless desert. No one would even pass through the land.